Polishing appliance for finger nails



Jan. 10, 1933. WURZBURGER 1,894,142

POLISHING APPLIANCE FOR FINGER NAILS Filed May 28, 1930 I K .L I v 1. 15 9- if mg/*4- 9 5 Z III JLW d f phi? m 7 24;. Mk2 BURGER" Patented Jan. 10, 1933 PATENT OFFICE PAUL WIl'RZBUBGEB, OF WIESIBADEN, GERMANY POLISHING APPLIANCE FOR FINGER NAILS Application filed May 28, 1930, Serial No. 456,596, and in Germany November 2, 1929.

The present invention relates to a polishing appliance for finger nails with a holder or handle fitting the hand and a folding polishing band adapted to be tensioned and secured 5 thereto, of which band both surfaces can be used for polishing the finger nails. The necessary tension of the polishing band can be obtained by suitably constructing the holder or handle or the polishing band, or both.

In the known appliances for polishing finger nails there is always only a single polishing surface available by means of which it is necessary to effect both the preliminary polishing and the final polishing of the finger nails. By reason of this there arose the dis advantage that the polish, paste or varnish applied to the nails impregnated the leather of the polishing material so that it became hard or greasy and rendered a final polishing therewith to a high polish impossible. Also recent pulverous highly polishing nail polishing media, which are not applied to the nails, but directly to the polishing leather, have the property of penetrating the leather more con- 9 siderably and rendering it useless for the final polishing.

By reason of this disadvantage it was necessary to use two polishing appliances, one for the preliminary polishing and the other for the final polishing to a high gloss.

Endeavours have already been made to obviate this disadvantage by enlarging the polishing surface (widening the band or surrounding a roller shaped pad with such a band). These attempts have not proved satisfactory as they do not completely eliminate the disadvantage in practice, whilst such polishing devices also have the disadvantage of being unwieldy.

According to the present invention the polishing band is so constructed that it presents two separate surfaces for the preliminary polishing and for the final polishing of the finger nails, and is so connected to a'holder that it can be changed from one side, for example that adapted for the preliminary polishing, rapidly to the other side, for example that adapted for the final polishing to a high gloss.

In addition to the advantageof this use of both sides and the convenient reversing of the polishing band the subject of the present invention can be manufactured simply and inexpensively. By reason of the possibility of collapsing it, it requires only a small amount of space and is therefore particularly suitable for placing in a pocket as also for transport when travelling and the like.

A further advantage of the present invention resides in the easy and convenient exchangeability of the polishing leather as also its arrangement as a covering of a separate pad of suitable elastic material, for example of rubber or the like.

This pad may be hollow and of such a cross ferent softness, for example one of very soft rubber or the like, and the other of harder rubber or the like.

The polishing band itself may also consist of two layers of difierent kinds of leather, for example one of very soft leather for final polishing and the other for the preliminary polishing, which are either connected together directly back to back or form a tube which is drawn over a square pad core. When using a hollow pad core a steel band or an elastic rubber band can be drawn through the bore thereof and the ends may serve to secure the pad provided with the polishing leather covering to the holder or handle.

The handle or holder may be in the form of a spring bow and simultaneously form the tensioning bow for the polishing band, or spring actuated or elastic members may be located between the holder or handle and the also ada ting them to the more or lessarched shape 0 the finger nails.

Also any variations of the pressure applied by the hand are balanced by reason 0 the spring actuated or elastic fitting of the polishing band.

The drawing illustrates a few examples of construction in accordance with the invention.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of an appliance for polishing finger nails with a flexible tensionin bow forming a holder or handle, and a po ishing band formed of two superposed la ers of suitable leather which are suspended y end loops in hooks provided on the holder or handle.

Figure 2 shows a similar appliance for polishing fin er nails with a polishing band formed 0? a rectangular pad core with a leather covering and a steel band passing therethrough in side elevation and partial section (the illustration in broken lines shows the holder or handle bent in the opposite direction after turning the polishing band which for this purpose need only be detached at one end).

Figure 3 shows a cross section to a larger scale of a polishing band.

Figure 4 shows a similar section of a rectaligular pad.

igure 5 shows a polishing appliance for finger nails according to Figure 2 with a polishlng band hooked at one end and a stretched holder or handle in elevation.

Figure 6 shows a polishing appliance for fin er nails with a rigid non-pliant handle or iolder and a polishing band with a pad core and an elastic and extensible rubber band passed through the core and secured at its ends to loops, in side elevation and partial section of the polishing band (the broken line illustration shows the polishing band hooked to both ends of the holder or handle in the operative position), and

Fi re 7 shows a front elevation correspon ing to Figure. 6.

In the forms of construction according to Figures 1 and 2 the holder or handle a consists of a pliant flat spring b of suitable length which may be rovided with a suitable covering or a coating for example of leather or the like, and provided with separate end pieces a and 03 into which the polishing band is hooked. The end piece 0 forms an open hook and the end piece d a clamping hook. The latter could also be in the form of a closed hinged eye if the polishing band is only to be turned and not removed completely. There is, however, preferably used a clamping hook as this enables the polishing band to be easily exchanged and also different polishing bands to be used. In the construction according to Figure 1 the polishing band consists of two superposed layers 6, e of suitable leather. They may be composed of a strip of the same leather or of two strips of different leather for example glac leather and chamois leather.

To both ends of the polishing band there is hingedly secured a closed loop f, similar to a chain link, of metal or the like, y means of which the band is secured in the end pieces 0, d of the holder or handle. In Figure 1 the double layer polishing band is so clamped in the holder or handle that its surface e can be used. 7 If the surface e is to be used the loop f of the polishing band is removed from the open hook c of the holder or handle, whilst slightl compressin this, turned in the clamping ook d when t e holder or handle is bent towards the other side when the loop f is again engaged with the book a. The clampin closed plvoted eye, but it is preferably in the form as shown as it then enables the polishing band to be completely removed by withdrawing the loop g. This loop is preferably somewhat thicker than the outlet passage from the clamping hook and when a consid' erable pull is applied thereto it spreads the spring actuated free ends of the hook, which are bent towards one another, outwardly to such an extent that it is capable of being withdrawn. It will be understood that the clamping hook d may also be replaced by a simple hook 0, but in such a case the polishing band would be entirely free and both parts would, therefore, be liable to be separated and either the holder or the polishing band be liable to be lost.

After disengaging the polishing band from the hook cthe holder or handle returns to its. extended position as shown in Figure 5. In this position the polishing appliance requires very little space and can be placed into a comparatively shallow flat container.

The form of construction according to Figures 2 to 5 difiers from that previously described only in the particular construction of the polishing band. This consists of a rectangular internal pad h with a steel band insertion or metallic strip 11 to the ends of which are rotatably or pivotally secured suspension loops f and g, and of a separate tubular leather covering. The latter consists of two parts k, k which are connected toether on the narrow sides of the inner pad It,

or example by sewing. The connecting seams are indicated at Z, l. The covering parts k, k may be formed of the same leather or of different kinds of leather. The steel band insertion z is arranged unsymmetrically in the pad h so that the latter has difierent thicknesses above and below the insertion whereby the polishing leather coverings k, k, that is to say the pad supports,

' acquire diiferent degrees of yielding, for example are harder or softer. The same result can be obtained if as a pad or as a support for the leather coverings k, In two layers of hook d could be replaced by a' different material, for example a hard and a soft rubber, are used.

In the form of construction according to Figures 6 and 7 the flexible holder or handle is replaced by a rigid holder or handle/m and the steel band insertion in the polishing band pad is replaced by a rubber band 01, to the ends of which the suspension loops f and g are secured. The difference in length between the holder or handle and the polishing band, which is balanced in the examples of construction according to Figures 1 to 5 by bending the former, is balanced in the construction according to Figures 6 and 7 by the extensible rubber band n of the polishing band pad h.

In Figure 6 is illustrated in full lines the polishing band which is disengaged from the hook 0 of the holder or handle and the rubber band is in the contracted condition, whilst the broken lines indicate the polishing band on the other side of the holder or handle engaged with the hook 0 so that the rubber band we is tensioned and the appliance is ready for use.

All the forms of construction have in common that both sides of the polishing band can be used by simply reversing or turning and stretching in the holder or handle.

I claim An appliance for polishing finger nails, comprising a flexible holder, a band having polishing surfaces on both sides and being shorter in length than said holder in its normal condition, a connection between one end of said holder and said band whereby the latter may be pivotally moved relatively to the holder to reverse the positions of said polishing surfaces and to selectively adjust one or the other thereof into operative positions, and means whereby the other end of said band is detachably connected with the other end of said holder to fix the selected polishing surface in said operative position and to flex said holder in opposite directions in accordance with the polishing surface being used, said holder in both of its flexed positions developing a tension in said band between its points of connection with said holder and compensating for any stretch in said band, the latter spanning the space between opposite ends of said flexed holder and being p out of contact therewith.

In testimony whereof I affixed my signature.

P. WURZBURGER. 

